Stee
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A ladder
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.8M(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 54K
- NONorway1 in 68K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A ladder.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stee counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Stee | 26 |
| US United States | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | listed | Stee | 120 |
| NO Norway | 80 | 1 in 68K | 80 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Stee | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Stee | 20 |
| AU Australia | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Stee | 21 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Stee is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, wholly unappreciated in the world, ‘ruefully. no match in the whole world
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In enm, alternative form of stie (“ladder”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nds (Germany), place; spot; position; location
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, auction
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 80 | #18,629 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stee mean, and where does it come from?
- A ladder. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stee?
- A machine transcription gives /sti/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stee have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 322 people named Stee in the Netherlands, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stee.
- How common is the name Stee?
- In Norway, the national register counted 80 people named Stee, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Stee?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/steeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Stee”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.